Patrick Wolf promises "clean" album

Patrick Wolf has claimed that his upcoming album will be "clean" compared to its predecessor.

The singer-songwriter told NME that the record would not have the same harshness of 2009's The Bachelor.

Wolf said: "I wanted to get away from the industrial element of the last album.

"I wanted to get away from any noises or frequencies that were provocative in terms of noise. It was important to me to make a very clean album."

He added that he had got rid of his trademark glam image, explaining: "It's become the convention now: a persona, an ego, theatre, big shoulder pads and attitude. I'm not really interested if that's become the mainstream."

Wolf last year confirmed that his fifth studio album would no longer be called The Conqueror as he has "grown up a lot from that battle aggression" since first planning the record.